1. Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar
Multidisciplinary bibliographic and citation searching databases
Central Library of Semmelweis University
Anna Berhidi 2014/2015 2nd semester

2. Sample of a journal publication
Citing publication
Cited publications

3. CITATION has two meanings in library usage:
a bibliographic item of a work, e.g. journal article, which includes the title of the publication, the authors’ names, data of sources (source title, volume, issue, pages, publication year)
a quotation, which an author has received in a paper published by other researcher

4. What is Web of Science?
A research platform from Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge)
Different databases are available on the platform depends on subscriptions
Semmelweis University has access to:
Web of Science Core Collection
Chinese Science Citation Database
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Scielo Citation Index

5. What is Web of Science Core Collection?
Multidisciplinary bibliographic database (formerly Web of Science)
Includes full bibliographic information and citation searching
Updated weekly
Contains 5 indexes (at Semmelweis University):
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities
Timespan (in Hungary):
1975 to present
1990 to present (at Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes)

6. Value-added services – My tools (required registration)
Create a private user profile
Save searches and create search alerts (eg. RSS feeds)
Citation Alerts It allow you to monitor citation activity for any WoS article.
EndNote Basic/Online: web-based reference organizer
ResearcherID: heightens communication among researchers in all disciplines, increasing their visibility and making their work more accessible

7. Access
On the website of Central Library of Semmelweis University : Sources - Databases: Web of Science link

8. Web of Science platform
Other access:

9. Select Web of Science Core Collection database

10. Web of Science Core Collection – with 5 indexes

11. Search options
Basic Search: general search by topic, author, DOI, publication year, address, etc.
Cited Reference Search
Advanced Search

12. Basic search – detailed search fields
Topic: search the following fields within a record: title, abstract, author keywords, keywords plus®
Title: search for the title of a publication
Author: search for an author name of a publication (include group author too)
Author Identifiers: search for unique identifier (ResearcherID or ORCID) of an author
Group Author: search for corporate author name
Editor: search for name of an editor
Publication Name: search the source title (a.k.a. journal name) within a record
DOI: search for digital object identifier (DOI®), which identifies the digital content on the web
Year Published: search for publication year(s)
Address: search for the full or partial name of an institution and/or location from an author's address
Organizations-Enhanced: search for preferred organization names and/or their name variants from the Preferred Organization Index
Conference: search for conference title or location or date or sponsor
Language: you can select one or more languages from a list
Document Type: you can select one or more documents from the document list
Funding Agency: search for a funding agency
Grant Number: search for a grant number
Accession Number: search for a unique identifying number associated with each record in Web of Science
PubMed ID: search a unique identifier assigned to each MEDLINE record

13. Truncation symbols / wildcard characters
Search tips
Truncation symbols / wildcard characters *
Zero or more characters
Eg.: hydroxy*= hydroxylase, hydroxydopamine, hydroxyethyl, etc. ?
One character
Eg.: en?oblast = entoblast, emndoblast
$ (cannot be used within quotation marks)
Zero or one character
Eg.: col$r = color, colour
Operators
AND
The AND operator finds all terms entered.
Eg.: allergy AND stress OR
When using OR, at least one term must occur. Your search will retrieve articles that contain any one of these terms.
Eg.: saccharine OR sweetener
NOT
The NOT operator excludes terms from your search.
Eg.: aids NOT hearing => will retrieve records about the disease AIDS, not hearing aids
„…”
If you would like to search for an exact phrase, enter it in quotation marks.
Eg.: „eating disorder”, „hearing loss”
NEAR/x
NEAR finds terms within the same field, and allows you to specify how far apart terms should be. If no number is specified, the default is 15 words.
Eg.: osmium near/3 hydroxy* => where osmium term must be within a maximum of 3 words from the terms beginning with hydroxy*
SAME
The SAME operator is used only in the Address field and retrieves terms that all occur within the same address.
Eg.: yale SAME hospital
Source:

14. Search for keywords (in Topic)
Use truncation symbols (*, ?, $) and operators (NEAR/x, SAME, NOT, AND, OR)!

15. Results list

16. A bibliographic item
Extra information: -Times Cited: how many papers cited this publication in Web of Science Core Collection database -Full Text: sometimes the paper has a full text button: if our institution's has subscription, you can read the full text of the publication at the publisher’s site -View abstract: you can read the brief summary (abstract) of the paper

17. Results list – refine, process, analyze3. 4. 2. 1.
Refine Results: Results may be refined by e.g. categories, document types, subject areas, authors, source titles, publication years, institutions, languageas, or countries/territories.
Processing Records: You can choose to print, , add to marked marked list, add to ResearcherID or export to bibliographic manage software the records that you have checked off.
Sort by: The default sort is Publication Date (newest to oldest). You can change the sort order of your results by e.g. times cited, relevance, first author, source title, publication year, conference title.
Analyze Results by different options or Create Citation Report to see aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results.

18. Results list

19. Full record (1)
Access to full text depends on the institution’s subscription!
Look Up Full Text takes you to Google Scholar database.
Click Times Cited to find out who cited this paper in Web of Science Core Collection database.
Click Cited References to move to this paper’s bibliography.
Click view related records to view records that share cited references with this paper. (The more cited references two articles share, the close the subject relationship.)
All Times Cited shows who cited this paper in all citation indexes of Web of Science database (Access to records is limited to the institution’s entitlements subscription).

20. Full record (2)
Address of the authors: name, city, country of the institutions, etc.
Author Identifiers, if at least one of the authors has ResearcherID and/or ORCID.
Plus information about the journal and its publication.

21. Search for author

22. Results list – documents of the author

23. Citation report of the author

24. H-index
The h-index is a bibliometric indicator based on the set of a researcher’s most cited papers and the number of citations (quotations). It is indicated by an orange horizontal line at Citation Report in Web of Science. The number of items above this line, which is h, have at least h citations. For this example, the h-index of 28 means that there are 28 published papers that have 28 citation or more.

25. Search options Basic Search
Cited Reference Search: search for the articles that have cited a previously published work
Advanced Search
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26. Cited reference search – settings

27. Cited reference search – first step

28. Cited reference search – second step (a)
Citations retrieving:
-View Record
- Mark the checkbox(es), Finish Search

29. Full record – number of the citing documents
Number of the quotations in Web of Science Core Collection database
Number of the quotations in all citation indexes of Web of Science database (what we can see depends on the subscription)

30. Let see the number of the citations!

31. Cited reference search – second step (b)
Look for variants. Papers are sometimes cited incorrectly.

32. Search options Basic Search Cited Reference Search
Advanced Search: create complex queries using two-character field tags and Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, SAME, NEAR)
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33. Advanced search – settings

34. Advanced search
Search box

35. Advanced search – number of the records in the Search history

36. The most cited publication of the results list
Results list – sort by Times Cited -- highest to lowest
The most cited publication of the results list

37. Combine the results
Advanced Search / Search History

38. New results list after combining

39. Exercises
Search publications about cancer and environment (as topic) from Hungary (as address) in Web of Science Core Collection database. It is not specified how far apart cancer and environment terms should be.
How many proceedings papers did you find?
How many authors wrote the most cited publication?
Search the most cited article (as doc. type) about prevention and dementia (as topic), not from USA (as address) in Web of Science Core Collection database. The prevention and dementia terms must be within a maximum of 3 words from one another.
How many institutions collaborated at this article?
How many records can be found in the bibliography of this article?
Search publications about facebook and attention (as topic) from Germany (as address) in Web of Science Core Collection database. It is not specified how far apart facebook and attention terms should be.
In which journal was the most cited publication published?
How many times were all publications of your search cited?

40. What is Scopus?
One of the largest abstract and citation database of research literature from Elsevier Publisher
Multidisciplinary bibliographic database
Updated daily
Approximately 70% of titles are not from North America
About 21% of the indexed journals are bilinguals and/or not English
~100% Medline coverage
Timespan:
70% of all Scopus records, back to 1823, have an abstract
References go back to 1970 (Scopus is in progress of updating pre-1996 cited references going back to 1970.)

41. Value-added services (required registration)
Set up alerts
Search alerts send new results from a previous search directly to your mailbox.
Document citation alerts notify you when an article you specify is cited by another article.
Personalize
You can edit your searches, save them for a future session or set up an alert to receive new results by .
Access to another Elsevier product
If you have subscriptions to more than one Elsevier product, you only need to log in to one product. For example, if you log in to Scopus and have a subscription to ScienceDirect, you will not need to log in again when you use ScienceDirect.

42. Access
On the website of Central Library of Semmelweis University: Sources - Databases: Scopus link

43. Scopus database

44. Search options
Document Search: search by article title, abstract, keyword, author, affiliation, language, ISSN, DOI, references, etc.
Author Search
Affiliation Search
Advanced Search

45. Document search – detailed search fields
Article Title, Abstract, Keywords: a combined field that searches abstracts, keywords, and article titles
Authors: search for an author name of a publication (Note: Use a comma to separate last name and first name.)
First Author: search for the first author listed for a document.
Source Title: search for the title of a journal, book, conference proceeding, or report in which the document was published.
Article Title: search for the title of a publication
Abstract: search in the summary of a document
Keywords: a combined field that searches the author keywords, indexterms, tradename, and chemname fields
Affilitiation: search for the full or partial name of an institution and/or location from an author's address
Language: search for the language in which the original document was written
ISSN: search for International Standard Serial Number: a unique identification number assigned to all serial publications
CODEN: search for a unique code that identifies serial and nonserial publications
DOI: search for digital object identifier (DOI®), which identifies the digital content on the web
References: search in reference lists of documents
Conference: search for conference name or sponsor or location
Article Title, Abstract, Keywords, Authors: a combined field that searches abstracts, article titles, keywords, and author names
Chemical Name: search for chemical names
CAS Number: search for Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number
Limit to: Date Range: search for publication year(s)
Document Type: search for a document type

46. Document search – document types

47. Truncation symbols / wildcard characters
Search tips
Truncation symbols / wildcard characters ?
Only one character
Eg.: AFFIL(nure?berg) = Nuremberg, Nurenberg *
Any number of characters
Eg.: toxi* = toxin, toxic, toxicity, toxicology, etc.
Operators
AND
Searches for publications containing both words.
Eg.: food AND poison OR
Searches for publications containing either or both words.
Eg.: weather OR climate
AND NOT
Searches for publications that do not contain the following word (after AND NOT).
Eg.: tumor AND NOT malignant
„…”
To search as a phrase, use quote marks, it will also search for both singular and plurals.
Eg.: „heart-attack” = heart-attack, heart attack, heart attacks
{…}
With curly brackets you can search for the exact phrase.
Eg.: {heart-attack} = heart-attack
PRE/n
Restricts to n words between the two words. The word order is as set.
Eg.: newborn PRE/2 screening => where newborn term precedes with a maximum of 2 words screening term
W/n
Restricts to n words between the two words. The word order is not set.
Eg.: pain W/5 morphine => where pain term must be within a maximum of 5 words from morphine term
Source: SciVerse Scopus. Quick Reference Guide. ©2011, Elsevier B.V.

48. Search for keywords 1. (at Document search platform)
Use operators:
OR, (W/n, PRE/n), AND, AND NOT

49. Results list

50. A bibliographic item*
* The bibliographic item is full – with the volume, issue and page numbers – when we hover over the record.
Extra information: -number of the last column (Cited by): shows how many papers cited this publication -View at publisher: if you see this button, you can read the full text of the document at the publisher’s site depends on our institution’s subscription -Show abstract: you can read the brief summary (abstract) of the paper -Related documents: you can view a list of related documents based on shared references

51. Results list – refine, process3.
Some further options:
View secondary documents: Results from reference lists.
Patents: Results from 5 patent offices. 4. 2. 1.
The default sort is latest Date. You can change the sort order of your results by date (newest or oldest), cited by, relevance, first author (A-Z or Z-A), or source title (A-Z).

52. Full record (1)
If you click the icon, you can the author(s). If you click the icon, you can see the correspondence information (author, address) for this document.
Cited by shows who cited this paper.

53. Full record (2) References shows this paper’s bibliography.
Information about the correspondence author.

54. Search for keywords 2. (at Document search platform)

55. Results list – edit, save, alerts; analyze results

56. Analyze results – by different options

57. Results list – View citation overview

58. Citation overview

59. Search for author (at Document Search platform)

60. Results list – documents of the author

61. Search options Document Search
Author Search: locate a particular author easily
Affiliation Search
Advanced Search

62. Author search – first step

63. Author search – second step

64. Author – „information sheet”(search for name variants)

65. Author – „information sheet” (with the grouped author name variants)

66. Author – publications and citations data

67. Author - h-index Option to look the h-index of the given author.
The h-index of 18 means that there are 18 published papers that have 18 citations or more.

68. Search options Document Search Author Search
Affiliation Search: search for institutes
Advanced Search

69. Affiliation search – first step

70. Affiliation search – second step

71. Affiliation – „information sheet”

72. Search options Document Search Author Search Affiliation Search
Advanced Search: create complex queries using operators (e.g. AND, OR, AND NOT) and codes

73. Advanced search
Search box

74. Results list – sort by: Cited by (times cited)
The most cited publication of the results list

75. Search history: Combine the results

76. New results list after combining

77. Exercises
Search a publication with doi: /ac201251s in Scopus database.
Who is the correspondence author of the publication?
Which institution(s) and department belong(s) to the last author at this publication?
Search publications about facebook and "medical student" (as article title, abstract, keywords) in Scopus database. It is not restricted how many words should be between facebook and "medical student" terms.
In what languages were the publications of your search written?
What is the DOI number of the most cited publication of your search?
Search publications about antioxidant and probiotics (as keywords) which not include inflammation (as keywords) in Scopus database. The antioxidant term must be precede with a maximum of 5 words probiotics term.
Which country/countries published the most documents of your search?
What is the (supposed) nationality of author of the oldest publication?

78. What is Google Scholar? Free database from Google
You can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites
You can find out what publications have cited other publications
At „Advanced Search” platform you can combine your queries, such as terms, authors, publication years
There are duplicate, false, etc. citations, so need to double-check the records – the procedure is time-consuming
Access to full text depends on subscription, because the links go to sites of different publishers, vendors, etc.

80. Google Scholar – results list

81. Search for keywords/topic
"irritable bowel syndrome"

82. Exercises
Search documents published between by author "Ligeti E" in Google Scholar database. How many publications are cited?
Search publications about "food allergy" and asthma in Google Scholar database. How many authors wrote the most relevant publication?

83. SUMMARY Characteristics Web of Science* Scopus Google Scholar Indexing
Journals, proceeding publications in mostly English and with impact factor
Journals, books, book chapters, coference publications in many languages
Journals, dissertations, books, book chapters, etc. in different languages
Document types
Article, review, note, proceedings paper , meeting abstract, letter, editorial material, journal series as book chapters, etc.
Article, review, short survey, book, book chapter, conference paper, letter, etc.
Articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, etc.
Years covered-documents
From 1975 (Proc. Cit. Ind: from 1990)
From 1960 (depends on the indexing, you can find bibliographic information back to 1823)
Not revealed / undefinable
Years covered-citations
From 1975
From 1970 (Scopus is in progress of updating pre-1996 cited references going back to 1970.)
Updates
Weekly
Daily
Weekly/6-9 Monthly/Yearly
* Regarding to Semmelweis University

84. Number of the citations: compare the results from Web of Science, Scopus és Google Scholar databases – an example
Sample:
Tuller T., Atar S., Ruppin E., Gurevich M., Achiron A.
Common and specific signatures of gene expression and protein-protein interactions in autoimmune diseases. Genes and Immunity 2013; 14(2):
(Date of the citation search: )
Groups
Number of the citations
Overlapping citations (WoS, Scopus, GS) 11
Overlapping citations (WoS, Scopus)
Overlapping citations (WoS, GS) 1
Overlapping citations (Scopus, GS) 2
Unique citations in GS 6*
* Records from GS: 2 journal articles (one of them cites incorrectly), 3 dissertations, 1 Chinese publication

85. Useful links Web of Science Web of Science Core Collection EndNote
Info:
Training:
Training on YouTube:
Web of Science Core Collection
Recorded Training:
Materials:
Info:
Google Scholar connection:
EndNote
Training:
Product Info:
User Forum:
Scopus
Scopus Info:
Scopus Blog:
Tutorials:
Scopus videos:

86. Thank you for your attention!
Central Library of Semmelweis University Anna Berhidi 2014/2015 2nd semester